contemptuous - Story 21802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're *my* brother?" Mark's voice dripped with sarcasm. He was leaned back against the peeling paint of the rental house's front porch, arms crossed, as if to shield himself. Across from him, Daniel, the supposed sibling, fidgeted on the cracked concrete steps, his nervous energy a stark contrast.

The lawyer had explained the situation, the DNA tests, the shared inheritance. Mark hadn't cared about the money. He cared about the years of his life, spent believing he was an only child, then this… this stranger. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture abrupt.

Daniel’s story, a tale of a long-lost father who never knew, sounded rehearsed. Mark wasn't buying it. He saw only a desperate grab for a piece of the pie. A sudden, potent dislike settled in his gut.

He smirked. "Well, Daniel, I guess we’re family now. How *delightful*."

Emotion: contemptuous

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.40 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 2.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion contemptuous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 contemptuous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the contemptuous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the contemptuous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.502
`l`	0.423
`fact`	0.287
`either`	0.265
`👎`	0.262

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.367
`unexpectedly`	-0.303
`serendip`	-0.265
`Suddenly`	-0.253
`previously`	-0.250